BBC News’ Indian audience surges to 60 million a week

[DreamDTH]

According to the latest figures of Global Audience Measure (GAM) released on Thursday, Indian audience of BBC News has increased by a whopping 186% in the last year and India remains to be the top global market...

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[Abhinav]

Country	BBC News Audience
India	60,400,000
United States	49,500,000
Nigeria	37,200,000
Kenya	14,600,000
Tanzania	14,000,000
Bangladesh	11,900,000
Afghanistan	11,400,000
Iran	11,300,000
Canada	9,700,000
Pakistan	9,700,000

 

[The Lonelier Island]

I think it's high time BBC launches their own satellite news channel in India. It should be a bilingual channel. Also their hindi bulletin needs improvement like "Upbeat" news of day. Their hindi bulletin is depressing as hell. Also the channel it airs on has one of the worst PQ among news channel.